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Alright so here it is.I finally updated to Youtube because it was taking too damn long on Tumblr and it ended up being too long for uploading anyway. But Youtube screwed up the quality. Sorry about that…..
Some of the footage had already been used in a previous documentary that aired last September but the end about the 200th episode is what makes it really interesting.
I did my best to understand the exact words that the actors were really saying but it was very hard since the voice over dubbing was really loud and the original audio really low. So sometimes I just went with what the dubbing said and translated it.
I hope it makes sense for the most part.
Enjoy!
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A few days ago, the NCIS crew was shooting their 200th episode. More than a hundred cast and crew members were present on set to celebrate.
Pauley Perrette: Well I will be there for the 400th episode. Maybe. So I hope.
NCIS, the show of all the records. Launched discretely in September 2003, it has become in a few years, the most watched show in the US.
Mark Harmon: It feels nice to be in a show that’s the number one show.
Abroad as well, the success is huge. Almost 200 channels broadcast the show around the world. In France, up to 8 million viewers follow the adventures of the NCIS agents on M6.[French channel]
Mark Harmon: It does well quicker internationally than in the US, especially in France.
A plebiscite from the audience. So why is the show ignored by official ceremonies? How does it yet manage to remain at the top of the ratings? We went to investigate on location and you’ll see that we were welcomed quite warmly, to say the least.
We’re going to the set of NCIS located in Santa Clarita, 1 hour away from LA. For confidentiality reasons, we can’t tell you the exact address of the studios. These large buildings are where most of the sets of the show are.
It’s 8 AM and the set is already buzzing with life, everybody is ready to shoot, and with a smile on their faces.
Cote de Pablo: Bonjour!
David McCallum (in French): I need my clothes…
That day, the team is shooting in the main set, the squad room. At least 5 scenes will have to be completed during the day, the amount of work is huge but the team is perfectly ready.
[Shooting footage of a scene from the episode]
For the director, you can’t lose any time, there are only 8 days to shoot a 40 minute episode. Unfortunately for him, the whole cast starts cracking up and that delays the shooting.
[MW starts laughing. Cote bursts out laughing.
MW: Ok I got it I got it. Don’t say the line, just don’t say the line. Ready?]
Pauley Perrette: We’re all here together so much and we’ve been for 9 years. Our biggest problem is that sometimes we start cracking up and we can’t stop. Especially Michael Weatherly.
That’s one of the secrets of the show’s success, the cast really gets along very well, as well as with the crew,they still have so much fun working together.
Mark Harmon: People don’t hold secrets, we talk about it, we’ve always done so. This is an unusual place and I can say because I’ve worked on a lot of other shows.
Other secret of fabrication, the writer of the current episode is also present on the set to answer the actors’ questions.
[MW: My line is “damn communists”.
Cote: Do what you want. Use the words you prefer.
MW: My wife is from former Yugoslavia.
Cote: Do it.
MW: I‘m very conflicted about this line.”]
When a line is a problem, just like this one, the writer can always rewrite the dialogue and know that if the stories surprise the audience, they also surprise the actors themselves.
Cote: Is it true that they (?) the last page and keep it from us? The answer is yes. Especially when it’s the last episode of the season , we can never know, they give us the page at the last moment and it’s not funny. Because want to know what’s going on, and talk about it but we can’t.
So, the actors’ interest is endlessly stimulated. They’re all very involved in the show and never complain about a work schedule that is often very busy.
Mark Harmon: I’m here usually very early and leave late at night. We’re here 14 hours a day. My wife often tells me that I must be the only actor in Hollywood who likes to work 14 hours a day but compared to where we come from, that’s some progress.
Mark Harmon is talking about the time when Donald Bellisario, the creator of the show, was still in command. In 2007, the crew, exhausted by the shooting schedule, had asked to change of manager, which led to Bellisario’s departure.
Mark Harmon: At the beginning, we were literally living here, we worked 20 hours a day and we didn’t even get the scripts so it was a whole different kind of thing. We’re much more organized now.
So organized indeed that actor Michael Weatherly even finds time to take us on a visit of the set, in his own way.
MW: Hello my name is MW and I play very special agent Anthony DiNozzo on NCIS. And I’m not dead. Come with me, I’ve got important things to show you. I’m gonna take you on a very secret journey through the world of NCIS. None of it is real. It’s all fake. This is the most wanted wall. All bad guys. [pointing to the picture of Osama Bin Ladin]Gotcha.
In front of such charismatic actors and such a success, we don’t understand why the critic is ignoring NCIS. The show has never gotten any official award. Once again it’s not nomintaed for the Golden Globe Awards that will reward films and TV shows in LA tomorrow.
David McCallum: It’s very interesting because the rest of the show business really ignores NCIS completely. We’re never mentioned anywhere.
David McCallum, aka Ducky, tries to analyze this indifference from the critics:
The show represents certains values of what life is all about. I think nowadays, some people … some of these values are being rejected whereas NCIS has old fashioned values such as virtue and respect and tradition.
In NCIS, no trashy scenes, no sex, no vulgarity, just a good amount of humour.
[Scene from 3x20 “Untouchable”]
That’s why the show attracts families and it explains this incredible success.
On January 3rd, the crew shot their 200th episode, and as usual, the mood was really good.
Pauley: This is the 200th episode. 200th! I woke up this morning and said: YAY!
To celebrate this event, a representant of CBS (Nina Tassler) wanted to congratulate in person the whole crew.
You have created a world of stories and characters taht bring so much joy to so many people every single week. You set the standards so high. We’re so proud of what you’ve done. We are so grateful and I want to be here for the 300th episode.
Michael Weatherly offers his own explanation for the high ratings of the show:
I don’t wanna say that Pauley Perrette’s skirts are getting shorter but I’ve noticed a correlation. Hey! I’m not one to draw those kinds of conc- ok I am drawing that conclusion.
Everything’s good to make the ratings go higher, inculding a good amount of humor.
And the least we can say is that the actor don’t want the adventure to stop anytime soon. They still see themselves there in 10 years.
Pauley Perrette: Well I will be there for the 400th episode. Maybe. So I hope.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this!!
@темы: видео/video, season 9/сезон 9
— Kim
